Dr Diego gave his lecture on Aliens… Where are you? to a packed audience on 1st December at the Royal Masonic School. We were all fascinated by the number of coincidences required to generate life, and surprised by the conclusion that we may be alone in the universe. The lecture was enjoyable and entertaining throughout, and led to stimulated discussion afterwards. Thank you on behalf of everyone who attended this excellent lecture!

It gave us great pleasure to welcome Dr Diego to our weekly Talking Points lecture last week. The pupils were fascinated by his Aliens… Where are You? lecture and it certainly gave them much to think about and many questions to ask. A fascinating topic covering Physics, Astronomy and History and passionately delivered by Dr Diego. Altogether a thoroughly enjoyable experience!

Your lecture tonight, the “Unweaving Star Rainbows”, at the WOLAS Meeting in Harrow was most enlightening. The subject of Spectroscopy has always seemed dry to me (though necessary) so I have never taken the trouble to understand it. You brought life to it and your relaxed style was refreshing. I really enjoyed the broad content that included some historical breakthroughs, past giant scientists, the theory and it’s wonderfully staggering applications in astronomy. Very beautiful – thank you. Hope to hear you again soon, Best wishes. (Operations Manager by profession, enjoy science and a learning enthusiast)

Thank you for the lecture on the origins of life in the universe. It was truly thought provoking and made completely relevant to biology and the complexity and diversity of life. Philosophically and scientifically fascinating, you put into context science as a whole and the miracle that is life. Amazing.

Thank you on behalf of everyone who attended the WCGS Science conference, for your brilliant and engaging lecture on the origins of the universe through to the evolution of complex brains. It was a fascinating and exceptionally well-illustrated journey – the use of the ‘washing line’, images and ‘glue for forces’ analogy was very clever and made the lecture thoroughly accessible to both scientists and non-scientists. The introduction highlighting different cultures beliefs about the origins of the universe was particularly interesting and the historical perspective it provided was very powerful. Thank you and hopefully we will see you again!

Thank you Dr. Diego – for an articulate, balanced view of India’s Mars mission in your interview with the BBC.

Dear Franscisco,

Many thanks for the wonderful work you did with the Year 5 and 6 pupils at De Bohun Primary School. The high level thinking and quality of the subject inspired many young minds. I hope they will continue their Science thinking at Secondary school.

Many thanks
Helen Pearson

Astrophysics day (6/6/13). An excellent day, very informative with many good ideas of how to present this information to students of different ages.

I hope that Professor Diego will make his excellent PP presentation available for us to us.

I am an A-level Physics teacher and attended the Astrophysics course at the UCL Observatory (11/6/13). It was a very interesting day and I learned a great deal about Astrophysics. Professor Diego’s presentation was informative and quite inspiring. There were also numerous good ideas for how to present this material to students at different ages.

I am a student at Huish Episcopi Academy and just been to your lecture on “Aliens.. Where are you?” what a fantastic and inspirational talk, i would love to learn more. You were very engaging and i was blow away by the scale you used to describe how earth as we know it today, i talk on behalf of everyone that was present at that lecture i say a big thank you for coming down